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Tenzing Norgay about his moment on the summit of the world, his thoughts and impressions.

Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay By Liesl Clark It has been a long road...From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax. -- Tenzing Norgay When Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with New Zealander Edmund Hillary, he had no idea how his life would change. From that moment ...